Justice Department sues Harvard for allowing ‘flourish’ of antisemitism on campus

Published March 20, 2026 12:16pm ET



The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday, accusing the Ivy League school of violating federal civil rights law by allowing antisemitism to fester on campus after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

The 44-page complaint, filed by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges Harvard discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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